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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (75118)2/23/2000 8:53:00 PM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I also have a new age devotee in the family; my mother occasionally drops by on her way to or from India, where she consults with her guru du jour. I remember when parents worried about their children developing such sympathies....

I am not that convinced that eastern religion has had a lasting impact on Western belief. Certainly there have been periods during which it has been much in fashion, but fashions change, and after they do there is little left but memory. This particular fashion seems to emerge largely among the economically comfortable and in particularly prosperous times; there is more than a bit of dilettantism about it.

I regularly meet Westerners who declare themselves to be "Tibetan Buddhists" (absurd) or tribal shamans (more absurd), as well as the usual crop of urbanites who declare themselves one with nature because they once walked into a forest and swayed with the breeze. Not to mention the plethora of aura-seers, mantra-mumblers, crystal-cuddlers, etc., etc., etc. that come trotting through in search of the wisdom of the east. Their mission seems to me to be less a serious quest for wisdom than an extended wank session.

As an amusing interface with previous discussion of the British Raj, have you heard the story of the "discovery" of Krishnamurti? How he was "adopted" - over the strenuous objections of his family - by a British pedophile (with the wonderful surname "Leadbeater") who saw him bathing in a stream and instantly recognized the child as "the world teacher"?

Weird world.
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